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Slimebeast on 09 September 2016
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Soundwave said:
Slimebeast said:

I don't know about that. You mean that the NX should run Android apps? You have heavily argued this before, haven't you?

Where did you get this idea? Did you come up with it yourself lol?

It sounds like it could be a good strategy, but talking just from a pure emotional perspective, I hate Android and Apple so I wouldn't want to have these apps on my future NX.

It comes from a Nikkei report actually, they said their sources have told them NX would run an Android "based" OS. I think they got the gist of this correct (it will run apps) but not vanilla Android (or certainly not a non-custom version of it). Something custom to Nintendo but can run the apps or run them easily. 

Nikkei has been right about many things before, they said Nintendo was making a 3DS XL, Nintendo denied this, then announced 3DS XL like a month later. They said Nintendo was making smartphone games, Nintendo denied this, then announced like 9 months later they're making smartphone games and the idea had been brewing for over a year. 

Nikkei also reported that Nintendo was making a Seaman game for 3DS ... now you can say, well that never happened, but actually at Mr. Iwata's funeral the creator of Seaman confirmed he was working on a Seaman game for Nintendo, it just ran into development problems and never came out. 

So yeah, I trust Nikkei, also I think logically it just makes sense. Nintendo is never going to win an arguement with kids if the arguement is "put away your smartphone apps and play our walled ecosystem instead". Kids are not going to let go of the apps they love and they're not going to carry around two large devices to play with. 

Plus there's money to make from these apps ... Apple/Google take a 30% cut all revenue from iOS/Google Play store. On NX, that revenue would go to Nintendo. So there's strong financial motivation as well, especially given Nintendo's unreliable 3rd party relationships and not being able to rely on licensing fees there. 

Damn it. Sounds plausible then.

It's just not because I dislike Android, it's also because as a classic company I want Nintendo to feel unique and exclusive (and I don't like this Mario release on smartphone at all). They should not dilute their brand name too much. But perhaps a custom version of the Android app store won't do that, I'm not sure.

Now that I think about it, what arguments, besides pure emoptional, are there for Nintendo to not implement an extrenal app store like Android's?